[opendtv] Re: Free OTA Receiver (DVB-T)

What's your point? Over here, people buy cable and DBS instead,
and 51 percent of these cable/DBS households are already digital.
More precisely, counting only digital cable and DBS as a souce of DTV, 51 percent of US households receive DTV service today. (And over 85 percent of households use pay TV media.)
If you add to that 51 percent the FOTA DTT-exclusive households that exist now, total DTV households goes up a few percentage points. But on or about 18 Feb 2009, the total percentage of households that receives DTV here should be about 66 percent, assuming all OTA households go to DTT *and* no more households than today buy digital cable. My guess is that the actual percentage of households with DTV will be higher than 66 percent in two years, as more people buy flat panel displays and demand DTV signals for them.
So DTV uptake is not the issue here. IMO, it would be nice for the DTT component to be better. If cable systems start relying on it, and DBS systems continue to, then that might be the avenue to better DTT choice.
I doubt very seriously that in the US market, things being as they are, people would drop their umbillical service to rush to FOTA TV. The guys holding the money bags don't see any payoff in that, and consumers are too spoiled to go back.
How does DTT modulation figure into any of this? I suppose it does if you think that the DTT component should be converted to a mobile handheld, low res service. In that case, forget about comparing this to any European example. That's NOT what makes the UK DTT successful at all. Or any other Euro or Aussie DTT. 

Bert

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